Thanks for this. Good to know! I haven’t taken the leap yet. I’ll plan the upgrade when we will be on vacation…

This is why I don’t update unless absolutely necessary. I’m only running a local instance so it is less of a security issue. Once I land on a working version, I’m gonna go ahead and stick with that as long as I can.

I was frustrated by this also and decided not to put the effort into rooting the device to get rid of all that crap. Instead I decided to use Flauncher together with Button Mapper. Using that tool, I map the homepage button on the remote to point to Flauncher. It isn’t a perfect solution but it was done in a few minutes and I can now mostly avoid the bullshit ads

To expand on this, I have witnessed small, indie channels have their content copied, processed through AI so it is stripped of audio, watermarks and re-edited. Then it is posted as a new video. When it is reported as a fake, or pirated copy, or not original content, Google then puts the burden of proof on the small indie channel that originally created the content, often requiring them to lawyer up and file a legal complaint, before they will take any action to remove the AI slop. It is fucking absurd. It would only take a real person about 60 seconds to compare the content and dates to determine who is the theif.

I used Ubuntu on an old Surface Pro and it worked really well.

I trialed several distros on my Precision 3550 and settled on Garuda. No regrets!!

I don’t know anything about that but it sounds interesting. If you have any sources for further reading about sandboxing vs paravirtualization, I’d like to read up on it

I find it odd that the author didn’t mention secureblue at all. I wonder why they didn’t consider that option?

I like notebooks like OneNote, Obsidian, etc for this purpose. I can keep things organized, broswer plugins to send direct to the notebook and even save a PDF or screenshot of the page if I want to.

I’m eagerly awaiting an update to Eternity. It was the best! For now I’m using Connect

Thanks for this! I’m looking forward to trying this. Would you have any recommendations for implementing this on an existing Arch system that’s already LUKS and BTRFS with snapper preconfigured?

I’ve been looking for something like Macrium Reflect for Linux and this sounds like the solution!

Currently I’m just using Clonezilla to image the entire drive on occasion. Your solution seems much more elegant

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